Live Listings

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NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

NEW THIS WEEK (SEP 11-17)

NEW!! Music Mondays. Tanya Willis Quartet. Sep 14 at 12:15pm. Tanya Wills is a Toronto-based jazz singer and with her Quartet she brings her sensual and evocative sound to the stage. Featuring Bill Bridges, guitar; Ron Johnston, bass; and Jordan Klapman, piano. Tanya’s repertoire ranges from European Cabaret, to the Great American Songbook to contemporary pieces, including original works. The stream and full program notes are available here.

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Sep 14 at 2pm. Rebroadcast of a Musical Mondays interview with Avery Saltzman and David Eisner interview by Cantor Charles Osborne. For more information, visit us online Visit here for more information, e-mail us at programs@templesinai.net, or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

NEW!! Hugh’s Room. Jeff Daniels Online & Unplugged. Sep 16 at 7pm. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased here. Once you purchase a ticket, you'll receive a link to the show. Jeff encourages all ticket buyers to email questions to him for a Q and A following the performance. Listen to Jeff's poignant track, Hard to Hear The Angels Sing, which feels more striking now than when performed on our stage in 2018 here.

COMING SOON

NEW!! Confluence Concerts. Something to Live For: A Billy Strayhorn Celebration. Sep 23 at 7pm. A range of works by the great 20th-century composer and jazz pianist Billy Strayhorn, best known for his long-standing collaboration with Duke Ellington. Larry Beckwith, voice; Alexa Belgrade, piano; Andrew Downing, cello and arrangements; Leighton Harrell, bass; Drew Jurecka, violin; Marion Newman, voice; Patricia O’Callaghan, voice; Alex Samaras, voice; Suba Sankaran, voice. Available online on Confluence Concerts’ YouTube channel. For information call 416-786-2509. All Confluence Online Concerts are offered free of charge and will remain online for two weeks after the premiere on YouTube. All donations are gratefully received. This concert is available until Oct 7.

NEW!! TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #06 with Badié. Sep 20 at 2pm. Live from Paris. Interested but can't attend? All our livestreamed performances are available through our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Enjoy this live streamed performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here.

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Oct 1 at 8pm. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in b, Op. 20; Sersam: Jonatan Medusa (2014); Hannah Kendal: Processional (2018); Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams (2019); Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires, Op. 21. $20 suggested donation. Please visit here for more information.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast - Episode 1. Sep 18 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with Ronald Royer (SPO), William Rowson (SSO), Derek Spooner (Scarborough Arts), and Tamar Ilana (FabCollab). Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 2 - Plagues, Pandemics, and Musicians. Oct 2 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus. Oct 16 & 23 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 4 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Oct 30 & Nov 6 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

CONTINUING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page with each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Quinn Jacobs' Music About Music. This concert is conducted by Eugene Astapov and was performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Listen here. Enjoy a conversation with Quinn Jacobs and Alex Pauk here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

NEW!! Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacinto Guerrero's Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks) performed in April 2016 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto.This zarzuela tells the story of Juan, who returns to his native village in Spain from Peru as a wealthy man, at last worthy of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Adriana. Separated for over twenty years, Adriana is unforgiving. In his absence, Adriana had married and is now a widow with a daughter, Rosaura. Adriana’s mother Leontina proposes that Juan marry Rosaura scandalizing the village. Juan is hesitant to complicate the situation especially as Rosaura is known to be in love with a young villager called Gustavo. This production features Guillermo Silva-Marin and some of Canada's most amazing voices to dazzle your ears and eyes. Watch scenes here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

HAPPENING THIS WEEK (SEP 4-10)

NEW!! Music Mondays. Diar. Sep 7 at 12:15pm. “Diar” is a Syrian Damask expression that indicates the open space or courtyard in the old traditional Damask house. “Diar” also indicates the band's homeland of Syria, their memories, childhood, friends, family, first love, happiness, sadness, and musical roots. Tarek Ghriri, flamenco guitar; Leen Hamo, vocals; and Nour Kaadan, percussion present songs from the traditional Arabic/Andalusian heritage, reproduced and infused with flamenco music; envisioned in different simple beats and rhythms from traditional Arabic music, making it new, upbeat and much more relatable to the non-Arabic listener. The stream and full program notes are available here.

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Sept 7 at 2pm. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! A very special edition of Musical Mondays Plus, as we honour our composer-in-residence Ben Steinberg. We’ll hear interviews with Ben Steinberg Musical Legacy Award winners Rebecca Gitter and Igor Gefter, hear some of Ben’s music, and have a visit with Ben and Machi Steinberg (rebroadcast). For more information, visit us online here, by email at programs@templesinai.net or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

COMING SOON

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live II: Corn Moon. Sep 9 at 8pm. The Full Corn Moon is a unique occurrence in the calendar and one we're particularly thrilled about celebrating. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Franz Liszt, Lowell Liebermann, Frederic Chopin and himself. Donations are welcomed. Please visit here for more information.

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Oct 1 at 8pm. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in b, Op. 20; Sersam: Jonatan Medusa (2014); Hannah Kendal: Processional (2018); Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams (2019); Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires, Op. 21. $20 suggested donation. Please visit here for more information.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast - Episode 1. Sep 18 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with Ronald Royer (SPO), William Rowson (SSO), Derek Spooner (Scarborough Arts), and Tamar Ilana (FabCollab). Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 2 - Plagues, Pandemics, and Musicians. Oct 2 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus. Oct 16 & 23 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 4 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Oct 30 & Nov 6 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm online. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Quinn Jacobs' Music About Music. This concert is conducted by Eugene Astapov and was performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Listen here. Enjoy a conversation with Quinn Jacobs and Alex Pauk here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacques Offenbach's The Beautiful Helen (La belle Hélène) performed from April 27 to 29, 2018, Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Enjoy the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Special Offer!

FREE CLASSIFIEDS

ALL CLASSIFIED ADS offering immediate paid employment opportunities for musicians and other arts workers will be free to the end of December 2020, in print and online.

WholeNote classifieds are online all the time, and can be published at any time! Inquiries by email only to classad@thewholenote.com

WholeNote CLASSIFIEDS can help you recruit new members for your ensemble, find a new music director or accompanist; sell your banjo, offer online music lessons! Starting at only $24/issue. INQUIRE BY SEPT 26 for the OCT edition. classad@thewholenote.com

AUDITIONS & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

AUDITIONING TENORS AND SOPRANOS  for Mostly Madrigals: 1-on-a-part a cappella ensembles. 1.5-hr zoomed workshops every 2-weeks. Coaching fee: $20/workshop. Contact Sheila. Call/text 416-574-5250.

AVAILABLE  POSITIONS with the KINDRED SPIRITS ORCHESTRA: All instruments. Visit KSOchestra.ca or email GM@KSOrchestra.ca

BUY & SELL

CLASSICAL RECORD AND CD COLLECTIONS WANTED. Minimum 350 units. Call, text or e-mail Aaron 416-471-8169 or A@A31.CA 

SOHMER & CO 2006 BLACK GRAND PIANO $7,500.00 mint cond. Mod. 77T ser. KJNL60080 info upon request Kira Keeping 7052419807 kirakeeping@gmail.com

TRUMPET, Olds Ambassador; EUPHONIUM Besson silver, compensating. TROMBONE, classic Silver King 2B in hard case. FLUTE. Phone 416-964-3642. 

WHAT’S IN YOUR CLOSET? Does your old guitar gently weep?  Sell that nice old accordion / clarinet / drum kit and find it a new owner!  WholeNote classified ads start at just $24.00. INQUIRE BY SEPTEMBER 26 for the OCTOBER  edition. classad@thewholenote.com

INSTRUCTION

ONLINE CELLO LESSONS with Dr. Dobrochna Zubek http://dobrochnazubek.com

GOT A MASK? WANT PIANO LESSONS? I’ll supply the hydrogen peroxide, you bring the desire to learn music. We’ll stay six feet apart. Or two metres if metric is safer. Or we’ll Zoom if you’re really nervous. Doug Ford says it’s all ok - I think. Peter Kristian Mose, 416/923-3060. MosePianoForAll.com.

WAITING FOR CHOIR TO START AGAIN? Treat yourself to private sight-singing lessons on ZOOM. Call or text Sheila at 416-574-5250.

SERVICES

ACCOUNTING AND INCOME TAX SERVICE for small business and individuals, to save you time and money, customized to meet your needs. Norm Pulker, B. Math. CMA. 905-251-0309 or 905-830-2985.

DOG BOARDING (near Woodbine subway). Heading away for a while and can’t bring your favourite canine companion? I take just one dog at a time and give it a very special vacation. Your dog will pull you to my door on repeat visits! Call or text Sheila at 416-574-5250 or lilackayak@gmail.com.

RESTORE PRECIOUS MEMORIES lost on old records, tapes, photos etc.? Recitals, gigs, auditions, air checks, family stuff. on 78’s, cassettes, reels, 35mm  slides etc?. ArtsMediaProjects will lovingly restore them to CD’s or DVD’s. Call George @ 416-910-1091.

VENUES AVAILABLE / WANTED

ARE YOU PLANNING A CONCERT OR RECITAL? Looking for a venue? Consider Bloor Street United Church. Phone: 416-924-7439 x22. Email: tina@bloorstreetunited.org

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

THIS WEEK (AUG 28-SEP 3)

Canadian Children's Opera Company’s (CCOC). The Monkiest King. Aug 29 at 3:00pm. This English-Mandarin opera will have its first public broadcast in the final hour (3-4pm approx.) of CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at The Opera.

NEW!! Music Mondays. Virtual Lunchtime Concert: Rosebud Quartet. Aug 31 at 12:15pm.  Aaron Schwebel, violin; Sheila Jaffee, viola; Keith Hamm, viola; Leanne Rutt, celllo. Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76, No. 5 in D; Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 74 “Harp”. The stream and full program notes are available here.

A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Mondays at 2.00 pm.
Monday, August 31, for Ellen Dubin — Part 2
Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Gemini Award-nominated actress and Temple member Ellen Dubin will be acting as our host this year for Temple Sinai’s online High Holidays, surely the most unusual in our people’s long history. Musical Mondays Plus is proud to present a special two-part opportunity to meet and get to know Ellen Dubin in an interview with David Eisner. This is one you will not want to miss! For more information, visit us online here, by email at programs@templesinai.net or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

COMING SOON

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live II: Corn Moon. Sep 9 at 8pm. The Full Corn Moon is a unique occurrence in the calendar and one we're particularly thrilled about celebrating. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Franz Liszt, Lowell Liebermann, Frederic Chopin and himself. Donations are welcomed. Please visit here for more information.

NEW!! The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Oct 1 at 8pm. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in b, Op. 20; Sersam: Jonatan Medusa (2014); Hannah Kendal: Processional (2018); Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams (2019); Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires, Op. 21. $20 suggested donation. Please visit here for more information.

Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm online. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacques Offenbach's The Beautiful Helen (La belle Hélène) performed from April 27 to 29, 2018, Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Enjoy the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

THIS WEEK (AUG 21-27)

NEW!! Canadian Children's Opera Company’s (CCOC). The Monkiest King. Aug 29 at 3:00pm. This English-Mandarin opera will have its first public broadcast in the final hour (3-4pm approx.) of CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at The Opera.

NEW!! Music Mondays. Virtual Lunchtime Concert. Aug 24 at 12:15pm.  Canadian pianist Sheng Cai will perform a full program of major piano solo works by Brahms, Prokofiev, Debussy and Beethoven. He remarks that he chose Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 "Stalingrad" to reflect the struggle with human destiny (and the current battle with COVID) and Beethoven's "Appassionata" to mark Beethoven's 250th birthday! The stream and full program notes are available here.

NEW!! Music on Main. Festivals for Compassion: Mark Takeshi McGregor. Aug 25. Music festivals throughout Europe have been expressing their solidarity by presenting a new, solo composition “Thin Air” by the Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki. Calliope wrote the piece earlier this year and has gifted it to ensembles, artists, and presenters to make their own in these uniquely challenging times for the world. Each presenter selects their own artist and instrument to represent the piece. We’re thrilled to announce Music on Main has had the opportunity to bring this festival to our Vancouver ‘home’ and commission Vancouver-based flautist, Mark Takeshi McGregor. The piece will be unveiled on Main’s social media platforms. For information, visit here.

Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. Aug 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit here.

NEW!! Skinnamarink with Sharon and Randi. A Live, Interactive, Virtual Concert. Aug 27 at 7:00 p.m. Fans of all ages are invited to join Sharon and Randi for a very special LIVE virtual show, SKINNAMARINK with Sharon and Randi, with special guest ... Bram! Legendary musicians Sharon & Bram brought happiness to four generations of children and their grown-ups. Sharon Hampson and her daughter Randi Hampson have coaxed Bram Morrison out of retirement for this up-close-and-personal sing-along gathering. At this first-ever event, viewers will be able to see, interact with, and sing along with each other and the performers. Join the stream here.

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Mondays at 2.00 pm.
Monday, August 24, for Ellen Dubin — Part 1
Monday, August 31, for Ellen Dubin — Part 2
Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Gemini Award-nominated actress and Temple member Ellen Dubin will be acting as our host this year for Temple Sinai’s online High Holidays, surely the most unusual in our people’s long history. Musical Mondays Plus is proud to present a special two-part opportunity to meet and get to know Ellen Dubin in an interview with David Eisner. This is one you will not want to miss! For more information, visit us online here, by email at programs@templesinai.net or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

COMING SOON

NEW!! The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live: Corn Moon. Sep 9 at 8pm. The Full Corn Moon is a unique occurrence in the calendar and one we're particularly thrilled about celebrating. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Franz Liszt, Lowell Liebermann, Frederic Chopin and himself. Donations are welcomed. Please visit here for more information.

NEW!! Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm online. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series: Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet featuring Virginia MacDonald. Aug 28: Donnybrook

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here for more information. Aug 25: Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry.

NEW!! The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

NEW!! Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacques Offenbach's The Beautiful Helen (La belle Hélène) performed from April 27 to 29, 2018, Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Enjoy the video here.

NEW!! VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

NEW!! Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

NEW!! Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

THIS WEEK (AUG 14-20)

NEW!! Array Music. Living Room Talk #14: Sarah Hennies. This week we're talking with composer/percussionist Sarah Hennies to talk about her performance of her work Gather & Release at Arraymusic in December 2017. Enjoy the talk with Sarah here and experience the world premiere performance here. Make sure to stay tuned every other Monday for more Living Room Talks in August and September featuring André Cormier, Ryan Driver, and Adam Scime.

NEW!! Music Mondays. Virtual Lunchtime Concert. Aug 17 at 12:15pm. Anastasia Rizikov and organist Xaver Varnus will share the stage to play solo masterpieces of one of the greatest composers of all time. Admission is pay-what-you-can, suggested donation $10. Information for accessing the stream and program details can be found here.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. Aug 15 & 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit here.

COMING SOON

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series: Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet featuring Virginia MacDonald. Aug 28: Donnybrook

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here. Aug 25: Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry 

Tuckamore Music Festival. Streamed Performances. Aug 10-19 at various times. For more info visit here or here. NOTE: This festival is being streamed from Newfoundland so please allow for the time difference.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Starts July 5, every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

New Music Concerts. NMC Media Archives. Available now. A NMC performance on Apr 12, 1987, of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) at the Premiere Dance Theatre with renowned puppeteer Bil Baird's marionettes. Max Ferguson, narrator; Bill Baird's Marionettes directed by Peter Baird; Stanley McCartney, clarinet; Peter Lutek, bassoon; James Spragg, cornet; Robert Aitken, conductor. Follow along with the score here and watch the video here.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration. recollectiv.ca

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Small World Music. Bollywood Monster Mashup. Presented by MonstrARTity and TD Bank. July 24 & 25. Visit the Facebook page here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Video Series: The Rather UNIQUE Voice Lesson from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. Performed at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Dec 2018/Jan 2019. Enjoy it here!

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Dr. Falke has shown up at a very inopportune time to exact revenge on his friend Eisenstein for leaving him in a compromising position after a costume party. Eisenstein, Rosalinda (his wife), Alfred (her former lover), and their maid Adele all find themselves attending a lavish party thrown by the Russian Prince of ennui himself: Orlofsky. The video is from TOT's performance in December 2018/January 2019. Mistaken identities, botched seductions, and borrowed gowns bring about some seriously silly hijinx. Watch the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Werther by Jules Massenet. Highlights from our 2018 production of Massenet's heart-wrenching opera based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, the story of a young German poet who is in love with a married woman, Charlotte. Enjoy the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: The World Premiere Performance of Isis and Osiris: Gods of Egypt. By Peter-Anthony Togni, Composer and Sharon Singer, Book Writer and Librettist. Watch the video here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

THIS WEEK (AUG 7-13)

NEW!! Array Music. Living Room Talk #13: Christina Volpini. This week we're talking with Hamilton, ON-based composer Christina Volpini about her 2018 Array Ensemble commission On the Formation of Waves. Along the way we discuss baking during quarantine, composer day jobs, and embarrassing accidents in front of your idols. It's a lot of fun - enjoy! Visit here.

Canadian Opera Company. The Hadrian Watch Party. Aug 10 at 6:30pm. Watch the Canadian Opera Company’s 2018 world premiere production of Hadrian, in full, online. The Hadrian Watch Party will feature a live Q&A session with both the composer and celebrated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor, a giant in Canadian theatre. The evening’s streamed performance will feature cinematic, multi-camera footage, bringing audiences closer than ever to the production’s blockbuster soloists, the renowned COC Orchestra, led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus, and the COC Chorus, led by Chorus Master Sandra Horst. This digital event is free but requires advance registration here. Throughout the performance, audience members can tweet questions for the live Q&A to follow, using the hashtag #HadrianWatchParty. Hadrian is sung in English and Latin and will be streamed by the COC with English subtitles.

International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. IF 2020. Aug 8 at 8pm. An all-night, online celebration of improvisational arts that will feature video performances from 150+ artists from 15+ countries. This 24-hour festival is free to attend and will feature a dynamic array of improvisational artists, including musicians, spoken word poets, dancers, and theatre practitioners. Visit here for more information.

Music Gallery at Home. Summer Reruns featuring Bandcamp watch-parties on Fridays at 7pm and talks on Mondays at 7pm. 

Aug 7 - Bandcamp Watch Party: SlowPitchSound (MG Remixed, 2016) + co-presented with IF: Improvisation Festival.
Aug 10 - Forward Together (X Avant Festival 2019). Moderated by Del Cowie, with Cheryl Duvall (Thin Edge New Music Collective), Ange Loft (YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN), Chelsea McBride (Socialist Night School) and Keysha Freshh (The Sorority).

NEW!! Music Mondays. In Celebration of Nadia Boulanger. Aug 10 at 12:15pm. Stephanie Chua, piano and Mary-Katherine Finch, cello celebrate Nadia Boulanger, renowned composer, conductor, and teacher who influenced generations of students from Aaron Copland to Daniel Barenboim to Astor Piazzolla to Quincy Jones.  Works featured include Boulanger’s Three Pieces for Cello and Piano, as well as works by composers she admired such as J.S. Bach, Debussy, and one of her most prominent students, Olivier Messiaen.The stream and full details are available here.

SweetWater Musical Festival. Next Wave Virtual Showcase. Starting July 24 at 12:00 noon. Discover tomorrow's talents today during SweetWater's second annual showcase of young, aspiring musicians. This year the event has gone virtual and features performances by eight acts. SweetWater Artistic Director Edwin Huizinga has selected two vocalists, four pianists, a tubist, and a clarinetist. Each will be given a spotlight over two weeks from July 24 to August 7. Visit here.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

Aug 13: Amai Kuda and Y Josephine. A tantalizing Afro-Soul combo of folk, roots, desert blues and African continental music that is about healing the earth, our ancestors and ourselves.

NEW!! Toronto Concert Orchestra. Watch Symphony in Your Garden: Songs Under the Stars. Aug 11 at 7:30pm. It wouldn't be a TCO summer without beautiful jazz vocals! Performing the music of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Harry Warren, Jerry Livingston, Walter Donaldson and Manuel Ponce. This week's program features husband and wife pair, Nathan Hiltz and Melissa Lauren. Nathan and Melissa have customized a set of songs inspired by stars especially for our TCO audience. Watch Symphony in Your Garden here.

Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. Aug 8, 15, 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit here.

COMING SOON

Kincardine Summer Music Virtual Festival 2020. All virtual concerts start at 7pm and are free, safe and easy to access at home.

Aug 10: Mike Downes, bass and Larnell Lewis, drums - Jazz
Aug 11: Hear•Say: Dakota Martin, flute; Phil Chiu, piano; Thomas Beard, cello
Aug 12: Jimmy Bowskill songwriter/guitar and Carlos del Junco, virtuoso harmonica - Blues
Aug 13: Caroline Léonardelli - Classical harp
Aug 14: Drew Jurecka, violin and Nathan Hilts, guitar

For details about these wonderful artists, please visit the website here and click on the dropdown menu “FREE VIRTUAL CONCERTS 2020”. After each concert has launched, it will be available for unlimited replays. These concerts are all free!

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series:

Aug 7: Alexander Brown Quartet
Aug 14: Joy Lapps Project
Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet feat. Virginia MacDonald
Aug 28: Donnybrook

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Aug 10 at 2:00pm. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Join us for a Musical Mondays interview with Avery Saltzman and David Eisner interview by Cantor Charles Osborne. For more information visit us online here, email us here or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here.

Aug 11 - Songs Under the Stars
Aug 25 - Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry 

Tuckamore Music Festival. Streamed Performances. Aug 10-19 at various times. For more info visit here or here. NOTE: This festival is being streamed from Newfoundland so please allow for the time difference.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites Series: James O’Callaghan. Featuring an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Not non-other. Conducted by Alex Pauk and performed by Esprit Orchestra in Koerner Hall on Feb 26, 2020. Watch the video here. Watch the composer in conversation with Alex Pauk on Soundbites Insights here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Starts July 5, every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

New Music Concerts. NMC Media Archives. Available now. A NMC performance on Apr 12, 1987, of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) at the Premiere Dance Theatre with renowned puppeteer Bil Baird's marionettes. Max Ferguson, narrator; Bill Baird's Marionettes directed by Peter Baird; Stanley McCartney, clarinet; Peter Lutek, bassoon; James Spragg, cornet; Robert Aitken, conductor. Follow along with the score here and visit here for the video.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration. recollectiv.ca

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Small World Music. Bollywood Monster Mashup. Presented by MonstrARTity and TD Bank. July 24 & 25. Visit the Facebook page here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. If you can't come to them, they will bring the concert experience to you! Hosted by Tafelmusik musicians from their homes, each program lasts about an hour and combines works that may be new to your ears with music you know and love. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Throughout the summer, we will continue to gather virtually with you to share beauty and comfort through music of the past. We invite you to participate by following our social media channels or our blog, and using the hashtag #TafelmusikTogether. Visit the blog here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Video Series: The Rather UNIQUE Voice Lesson from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. From our most recent production of Johann Strauss II's masterpiece here we have Alfredo (Cian Horrobin) passing his time in jail by giving his bumbling jailer Frosch (Guillermo Silva-Marin) a rather UNIQUE voice lesson. Performed at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Dec 2018/Jan 2019. Enjoy it here!

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Dr. Falke has shown up at a very inopportune time to exact revenge on his friend Eisenstein for leaving him in a compromising position after a costume party. Eisenstein, Rosalinda (his wife), Alfred (her former lover), and their maid Adele all find themselves attending a lavish party thrown by the Russian Prince of ennui himself: Orlofsky. The video is from TOT's performance in December 2018/January 2019. Mistaken identities, botched seductions, and borrowed gowns bring about some seriously silly hijinx. Watch the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Werther by Jules Massenet. Highlights from our 2018 production of Massenet's heart-wrenching opera based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, the story of a young German poet who is in love with a married woman, Charlotte. Tragically, Charlotte admits her love for him too late. Enjoy the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: The World Premiere Performance of Isis and Osiris: Gods of Egypt. By Peter-Anthony Togni, Composer and Sharon Singer, Book Writer and Librettist. Watch the video here. Stay tuned for more and be on the lookout for our playbill coming up. Enjoy!

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

THIS WEEK (JULY 31-AUG 6)

NEW!! Array Music. Living Room Talk #13: Christina Volpini. This week we're talking with Hamilton, ON-based composer Christina Volpini about her 2018 Array Ensemble commission On the Formation of Waves. Along the way we discuss baking during quarantine, composer day jobs, and embarrassing accidents in front of your idols. It's a lot of fun - enjoy! Visit here.

Music Gallery at Home. Summer Reruns featuring Bandcamp watch-parties on Fridays at 7pm and talks on Mondays at 7pm. 

Aug 7 - Bandcamp Watch Party: SlowPitchSound (MG Remixed, 2016) + co-presented with IF: Improvisation Festival.
Aug 10 - Forward Together (X Avant Festival 2019). Moderated by Del Cowie, with Cheryl Duvall (Thin Edge New Music Collective), Ange Loft (YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN), Chelsea McBride (Socialist Night School) and Keysha Freshh (The Sorority).

NEW!! Music Mondays. Virtual Concerts: DG3 Presents 3 Traditions. Aug 3 at 12:15pm. Deep Ganguly, bansuri; William Beauvais, guitar, and Ali Massoud, percussion. A program of music drawn from three musical traditions: Indian, Persian, and Western Art Music. This program will be a presentation of collaborative music, created by the three musicians together with respect and grace. It will offer a glimpse of the best of three worlds, from medieval to the present; embracing sweet sorrow, joyful prayer and buoyant dance rhythms. The stream and full details will be available here.

NEW!! SweetWater Musical Festival. Next Wave Virtual Showcase. Starting July 24 at 12:00 noon. Discover tomorrow's talents today during SweetWater's second annual showcase of young, aspiring musicians. This year the event has gone virtual and features performances by eight acts. SweetWater Artistic Director Edwin Huizinga has selected two vocalists, four pianists, a tubist, and a clarinetist. Each will be given a spotlight over two weeks from July 24 to August 7. Visit here.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

Aug 6: Digging Roots. Juno-winning First Nations roots-rockers Shoshona Kish and Raven Kanatakta, a unique musical marriage of unvarnished truth and unconditional love.
Aug 13: Amai Kuda and Y Josephine. A tantalizing Afro-Soul combo of folk, roots, desert blues and African continental music that is about healing the earth, our ancestors and ourselves.

Toronto Summer Music is delighted to announce its first-ever online festival! Save the dates: July 16 – August 1, 2020. Since the announcement that we had to cancel our in-person Beethoven Unleashed Festival, we have been working diligently to create a new digital Festival during this unique summer. Thanks to our generous supporters, we have a fabulous lineup of artists and concerts to present, all in high-quality audio and video – from emerging artists to international stars, Kids Concerts to multidisciplinary productions -- there will be something for everyone! We will be announcing full details in early July. Stay tuned by visiting here.

NEW!! Toronto Operetta Theatre. Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Dr. Falke has shown up at a very inopportune time to exact revenge on his friend Eisenstein for leaving him in a compromising position after a costume party. Eisenstein, Rosalinda (his wife), Alfred (her former lover), and their maid Adele all find themselves attending a lavish party thrown by the Russian Prince of ennui himself: Orlofsky. The video is from TOT's performance in December 2018/January 2019. Mistaken identities, botched seductions, and borrowed gowns bring about some seriously silly hijinx. Watch the video here.

NEW!! VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Werther by Jules Massenet. Highlights from our 2018 production of Massenet's heart-wrenching opera based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, the story of a young German poet who is in love with a married woman, Charlotte. Tragically, Charlotte admits her love for him too late. Enjoy the video here. 

COMING SOON

Canadian Opera Company. The Hadrian Watch Party. Aug 10 at 6:30pm. For the first time ever, audiences around the world will have a special opportunity to watch the Canadian Opera Company’s 2018 world premiere production of Hadrian, in full, online. In partnership with Montréal Pride Festival, the COC is hosting a free, one-night-only digital stream of the modern grand opera. The Hadrian Watch Party will feature a live Q&A session with both the composer and celebrated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor, a giant in Canadian theatre. The opera's all-star cast includes American baritone Thomas Hampson as Hadrian, Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell as Antinous, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila as Plotina, and Canadian soprano Ambur Braid as Sabina. Director Peter Hinton is joined by an accomplished Canadian creative team. The evening’s streamed performance will feature cinematic, multi-camera footage, bringing audiences closer than ever to the production’s blockbuster soloists, the renowned COC Orchestra, led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus, and the COC Chorus, led by Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst. This digital event is free but requires advance registration here. Throughout the performance, audience members can tweet questions for the live Q&A to follow, using the hashtag #HadrianWatchParty. Hadrian is sung in English and Latin and will be streamed by the COC with English subtitles.

International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. IF 2020. Aug 8 at 8pm. An all-night, online celebration of improvisational arts that will feature video performances from 150+ artists from 15+ countries. This 24-hour festival is free to attend and will feature a dynamic array of improvisational artists, including musicians, spoken word poets, dancers, and theatre practitioners. Visit here for more information.

Kincardine Summer Music Virtual Festival 2020. All virtual concerts start at 7pm and are free, safe and easy to access at home.

Aug 10: Mike Downes, bass and Larnell Lewis, drums - Jazz
Aug 11: Hear•Say: Dakota Martin, flute; Phil Chiu, piano; Thomas Beard, cello
Aug 12: Jimmy Bowskill songwriter/guitar and Carlos del Junco, virtuoso harmonica - Blues
Aug 13: Caroline Léonardelli - Classical harp
Aug 14: Drew Jurecka, violin and Nathan Hilts, guitar

For details about these wonderful artists, please visit the website here and click on the dropdown menu “FREE VIRTUAL CONCERTS 2020”. After each concert has launched, it will be available for unlimited replays. These concerts are all free!

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series:

Aug 7: Alexander Brown Quartet
Aug 14: Joy Lapps Project
Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet feat. Virginia MacDonald
Aug 28: Donnybrook

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Aug 3 at 2:00pm. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Join us for a Musical Mondays interview with  guitarist and vocalist Danny Markswith. For more information visit us online here, email us here or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here.

Aug 11 - Songs Under the Stars
Aug 25 - Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry 

NEW!! Tuckamore Music Festival. Free Prelude Concert. Aug 7 at 11:00am (Toronto time). Each year, our Prelude Concert celebrates some of our most accomplished Young Artist Program alumni. Join pianists Tabitha Payzant and Shane Tetford for an afternoon of virtual solo and four-hand repertoire in this year's Free Online Prelude Concert! Visit here to enjoy the concert. Other performances on Aug 10 through 19. For more info visit here or here. NOTE: This festival is being streamed from Newfoundland so please allow for the time difference.

University of Toronto, Faculty of Music. Summer Thursdays at Noon. All online performances are hosted by Korin Thomas-Smith.

Aug 6. Russell Braun & Carolyn Maule. Renowned for his luminous voice, baritone Russell Braun rightfully claims his place on the concert, opera and recital stages of the world. Braun is a lecturer in Opera and Resident Operatic Performance Specialist at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Carolyn Maule is much in demand as a vocal accompanist. She has performed as accompanist in London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, the National Arts Centre, and Roy Thomson Hall. Program: Chanson à boire by Ravel. Free. Register here.

Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. Aug 8, 15, 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit here.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Features resources for educators and people of all ages in several diverse and broad-based categories: Art, Dance, Music, Theatre, Media, and More. Subsections include Film and Photography, as well as offerings from Indigenous arts organizations. All tools and activities are free of charge, and available to everyone. Created and curated by representatives from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada’s National Ballet School, Harbourfront Centre, the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Prologue Performing Arts, The Royal Conservatory of Music, TO Live, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Young People’s Theatre, with the support of the City of Toronto, and in consultation with arts educators from various school boards. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. For information: 705-300-2405 or collingwoodfestival.com. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites Series: James O’Callaghan. Featuring an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Not non-other. Conducted by Alex Pauk and performed by Esprit Orchestra in Koerner Hall on Feb 26, 2020. Watch the video here. Watch the composer in conversation with Alex Pauk on Soundbites Insights here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Starts July 5, every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

New Music Concerts. NMC Media Archives. Available now. A NMC performance on Apr 12, 1987, of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) at the Premiere Dance Theatre with renowned puppeteer Bil Baird's marionettes. Max Ferguson, narrator; Bill Baird's Marionettes directed by Peter Baird; Stanley McCartney, clarinet; Peter Lutek, bassoon; James Spragg, cornet; Robert Aitken, conductor. Follow along with the score here and visit here for the video.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration. recollectiv.ca

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Small World Music. Bollywood Monster Mashup. Presented by MonstrARTity and TD Bank. July 24 & 25. Visit the Facebook page here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. If you can't come to them, they will bring the concert experience to you! Hosted by Tafelmusik musicians from their homes, each program lasts about an hour and combines works that may be new to your ears with music you know and love. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Throughout the summer, we will continue to gather virtually with you to share beauty and comfort through music of the past. We invite you to participate by following our social media channels or our blog, and using the hashtag #TafelmusikTogether. Visit the blog here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Video Series: The Rather UNIQUE Voice Lesson from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. From our most recent production of Johann Strauss II's masterpiece here we have Alfredo (Cian Horrobin) passing his time in jail by giving his bumbling jailer Frosch (Guillermo Silva-Marin) a rather UNIQUE voice lesson. Performed at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Dec 2018/Jan 2019. Enjoy it here!

VOICEBOX | Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: The World Premiere Performance of Isis and Osiris: Gods of Egypt. By Peter-Anthony Togni, Composer and Sharon Singer, Book Writer and Librettist. Watch the video here. Stay tuned for more and be on the lookout for our playbill coming up. Enjoy!

For previous update, click here.

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Features resources for educators and people of all ages in several diverse and broad-based categories: Art, Dance, Music, Theatre, Media, and More. Subsections include Film and Photography, as well as offerings from Indigenous arts organizations. All tools and activities are free of charge, and available to everyone. Created and curated by representatives from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada’s National Ballet School, Harbourfront Centre, the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Prologue Performing Arts, The Royal Conservatory of Music, TO Live, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Young People’s Theatre, with the support of the City of Toronto, and in consultation with arts educators from various school boards. Visit artsathome.ca to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Beaches Jazz Festival. Starts July 17 at 6pm. Free streaming from July 17 to 26. In support of the Michael Garron Hospital front line workers. Join us for 9 days of incredible free virtual performances, workshops, lectures and so much more! Grab your favourite drink and festival snack and get ready for nine days of unreal programming...all from the comfort of your own home! Streamed online on our websitebeachesjazz.com, YouTube, Facebook Live and IGTV. For more information, e-mail here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place on facebook.com/canadianbrass

Canadian Opera Company. The Hadrian Watch Party. Aug 10 at 6:30pm. For the first time ever, audiences around the world will have a special opportunity to watch the Canadian Opera Company’s 2018 world premiere production of Hadrian, in full, online. In partnership with Montréal Pride Festival, the COC is hosting a free, one-night-only digital stream of the modern grand opera. The Hadrian Watch Party helps kick off one week of virtual Pride events and will feature a live Q&A session with both the composer and celebrated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor, a giant in Canadian theatre. The ground-breaking production puts an overdue spotlight on one of history’s greatest romances between Hadrian, ruler of the Roman Empire, and his beloved Antinous. The opera's all-star cast includes American baritone Thomas Hampson as Hadrian, Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell as Antinous, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila as Plotina, and Canadian soprano Ambur Braid as Sabina. Director Peter Hinton is joined by an accomplished Canadian creative team; striking sets, paired with dramatic lighting and rich costume design, create an ethereal experience, fully transporting a 21st-century audience into this ancient, and important, story. The evening’s streamed performance will feature cinematic, multi-camera footage, bringing audiences closer than ever to the production’s blockbuster soloists, the renowned COC Orchestra, led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus, and the COC Chorus, led by Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst. This digital event is free but requires advance registration at coc.ca/Hadrian. Throughout the performance, audience members can tweet questions for the live Q&A to follow, using the hashtag #HadrianWatchParty. Hadrian is sung in English and Latin and will be streamed by the COC with English subtitles.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Classicaljukebox.ca

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. For information: 705-300-2405 or collingwoodfestival.com. Visit ePianist.com for information about the virtual concerts.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites Series: James O’Callaghan. Featuring an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Not non-other. Conducted by Alex Pauk and performed by Esprit Orchestra in Koerner Hall on Feb 26, 2020. Watch the video here. Watch the composer in conversation with Alex Pauk on Soundbites Insights here.

NEW!! Handel and Haydn Society. Live-stream concert.  July 25 at 4:30pm Pacific Time. Host / Artist: Aisslinn Nosky and Guy Fishman. Visit here. 

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Starts July 5, every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000. Website: harbourfront.live

International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. IF 2020. Aug 8 at 8pm. An all-night, online celebration of improvisational arts that will feature video performances from 150+ artists from 15+ countries. This 24-hour festival is free to attend and will feature a dynamic array of improvisational artists, including musicians, spoken word poets, dancers, and theatre practitioners. improvfest.ca/

NEW!! Kincardine Summer Music Virtual Festival 2020. All virtual concerts start at 7pm and are free, safe and easy to access at home.

Aug 10: Mike Downes, bass and Larnell Lewis, drums - Jazz
Aug 11: Hear•Say: Dakota Martin, flute; Phil Chiu, piano; Thomas Beard, cello
Aug 12: Jimmy Bowskill songwriter/guitar and Carlos del Junco, virtuoso harmonica - Blues
Aug 13: Caroline Léonardelli - Classical harp
Aug 14: Drew Jurecka, violin and Nathan Hilts, guitar

For details about these wonderful artists, please visit the website here and click on the dropdown menu “FREE VIRTUAL CONCERTS 2020”. After each concert has launched, it will be available for unlimited replays. These concerts are all free!

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click on youtube.com/watch?v=F2eVauBqiAY. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit kingstonsymphony.ca.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony  Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. facebook.com/kwsymphony and youtube.com/user/kwsymphony/videos.

Koerner Hall CONCERTS FROM HOME There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Christopher Lee. Livestream Recital. July 26 at 2:15pm. A livestream recital for flute and piano with Christopher Lee (flute) and Deborah Hui (piano). Broadcasting from a downtown Toronto church with no audience. Music by Mahler, Beethoven, Heggie, Dvorak, Sarasate, and Silva. This is a ticketed event. Price: $6. A YouTube link will be sent to ticket holders on the day of the event. Visit here for tickets.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) dannymichel.com

Music Gallery at Home. Summer Reruns featuring Bandcamp watch-parties on Fridays at 7pm and talks on Mondays at 7pm. 

Aug 7 - Bandcamp Watch Party: SlowPitchSound (MG Remixed, 2016) + co-presented with IF: Improvisation Festival.
Aug 10 - Forward Together (X Avant Festival 2019). Moderated by Del Cowie, with Cheryl Duvall (Thin Edge New Music Collective), Ange Loft (YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN), Chelsea McBride (Socialist Night School) and Keysha Freshh (The Sorority).

All performances and talks will be streamed live via the Music Gallery Facebook Page and musicgallery.org/live/

New Music Concerts. NMC Media Archives. Available now. A NMC performance on Apr 12, 1987, of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) at the Premiere Dance Theatre with renowned puppeteer Bil Baird's marionettes. Max Ferguson, narrator; Bill Baird's Marionettes directed by Peter Baird; Stanley McCartney, clarinet; Peter Lutek, bassoon; James Spragg, cornet; Robert Aitken, conductor. Follow along with the score here and visit here for the video.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. This week features a long distance collaboration with two singers in Glasgow, Scotland. Platforms: Facebook/Youtube. Join us every Saturday. For info: operarevue@gmail.com

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. orchestremetropolitain.com/en/ and mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall-news/

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Website: chamberfest.com

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration. recollectiv.ca

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm on facebook.com/RHCPA

Small World Music. Bollywood Monster Mashup. Presented by MonstrARTity and TD Bank. July 24 & 25. BMM Facebook page 

Suite Melody Care: virtual performances created for hospital patients and elderly in Canada and the United States to bring them some joy through music during these challenging times, in the safety and comfort of their own rooms and with their own personal devices. The first of these performance videos is available at youtu.be/UEg4YsVVHdk suitemelodycare.com

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. If you can't come to them, they will bring the concert experience to you! Hosted by Tafelmusik musicians from their homes, each program lasts about an hour and combines works that may be new to your ears with music you know and love. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik.org

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Throughout the summer, we will continue to gather virtually with you to share beauty and comfort through music of the past. We invite you to participate by following our social media channels or our blog, and using the hashtag #TafelmusikTogether. Visit the blog here.

NEW!! Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Together Friday: Café Counterculture. Available July 24 at 3pm. Stream the entirety of our Haus Musik: Café Counterculture concert for free until July 31, 2020! Originally performed on October 10, 2019 at Burdock Music Hall, Tafelmusik’s baroque flair and artistry meet folk favourites, as inspired by Toronto’s Yorkville scene in the ‘60s. Sonatas by Bach and friends are interspersed with new arrangements of iconic songs by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, and others. Curated by Marco Cera with guest artists Andrew Downing (double bass, arranger) and Alex Samaras (vocals), Café Counterculture is a trip down memory lane well worth taking. Watch anytime until July 31, at 11:59pm. Click here to access.

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series:

July 31: OKAN
Aug 7: Alexander Brown Quartet
Aug 14: Joy Lapps Project
Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet feat. Virginia MacDonald
Aug 28: Donnybrook

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. July 27 at 2:00pm. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Join us for a Musical Mondays interview with our Musical Legacy Award winner Dramatic Soprano Jaclyn Grossman. For more information visit us online here, email us here or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

July 30: Sina Bathaie. Hypnotic Santur performance with a unique approach toward Persian contemporary music.
Aug 6: Digging Roots. Juno-winning First Nations roots-rockers Shoshona Kish and Raven Kanatakta, a unique musical marriage of unvarnished truth and unconditional love.
Aug 13: Amai Kuda and Y Josephine. A tantalizing Afro-Soul combo of folk, roots, desert blues and African continental music that is about healing the earth, our ancestors and ourselves.

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here.

July 28 - Around the World in 40 Minutes
Aug 11 - Songs Under the Stars
Aug 25 - Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry 

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit torontoconsort.org for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Video Series: The Rather UNIQUE Voice Lesson from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. From our most recent production of Johann Strauss II's masterpiece here we have Alfredo (Cian Horrobin) passing his time in jail by giving his bumbling jailer Frosch (Guillermo Silva-Marin) a rather UNIQUE voice lesson. Performed at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Dec 2018/Jan 2019. Enjoy it here! 

Toronto Summer Music is delighted to announce its first-ever online festival! Save the dates: July 16 – August 1, 2020. Since the announcement that we had to cancel our in-person Beethoven Unleashed Festival, we have been working diligently to create a new digital Festival during this unique summer. Thanks to our generous supporters, we have a fabulous lineup of artists and concerts to present, all in high-quality audio and video – from emerging artists to international stars, Kids Concerts to multidisciplinary productions -- there will be something for everyone! We will be announcing full details in early July. Stay tuned by visiting Toronto Summer Music.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra: The TSO Facebook page hosts a regular series on Facebook Live on Tuesday and Friday afternoons called #TSOatHome.The TSO can also be found on Instagram (torontosymphony), onTwitter (@TorontoSymphony),  and YouTube youtube.com/user/TorontoSymphony. Orchestra members are also represented on Facebook and other platforms. They share content on Facebook (TSO Musicians), Instagram (tsomusicians) and Twitter (@TSOmusicians).  The TSO has also partnered with The Toronto Star for a collection of  “Musical Moments” on Thursdays, thestar.com/musicalmoments

University of Toronto, Faculty of Music. Summer Thursdays at Noon. All online performances are hosted by Korin Thomas-Smith.

July 30. Gryphon Trio. Gryphon Trio is firmly established as one of the world's preeminent piano trios. For more than 25 years, it has earned acclaim and impressed international audiences with its highly refined, dynamic, and memorable performances. The Trio's repertoire ranges from traditional to contemporary, and from European classicism to modern-day multimedia. Performers: Roman Borys, Annalee Patipatanakoon and Jamie Parker. Program: "Dumky" Trio by Dvořák. Free. Register here.

Aug 6. Russell Braun & Carolyn Maule. Renowned for his luminous voice, baritone Russell Braun rightfully claims his place on the concert, opera and recital stages of the world. Braun is a lecturer in Opera and Resident Operatic Performance Specialist at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Carolyn Maule is much in demand as a vocal accompanist. She has performed as accompanist in London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, the National Arts Centre, and Roy Thomson Hall. Program: Chanson à boire by Ravel. Free. Register here.

Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. Aug 8, 15, 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit epianist.com.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: The World Premiere Performance of Isis and Osiris: Gods of Egypt. By Peter-Anthony Togni, Composer and Sharon Singer, Book Writer and Librettist. We pay tribute to OIC fans and supporters by launching a series of archival videos promoting the wealth and scope of its diverse and innovative programming of rare operas in Canada.Isis and Osiris are two of four siblings born to the Gods of Egypt. They are not only brother and sister, husband and wife but also rulers as King and Queen. Consumed with envy and greed for power, their brother Seth attempts the murder of Osiris and brings about evil in the land. Watch the video here. Stay tuned for more and be on the lookout for our playbill coming up. Enjoy!

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NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Features resources for educators and people of all ages in several diverse and broad-based categories: Art, Dance, Music, Theatre, Media, and More. Subsections include Film and Photography, as well as offerings from Indigenous arts organizations. All tools and activities are free of charge, and available to everyone. Created and curated by representatives from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada’s National Ballet School, Harbourfront Centre, the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Prologue Performing Arts, The Royal Conservatory of Music, TO Live, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Young People’s Theatre, with the support of the City of Toronto, and in consultation with arts educators from various school boards. Visit artsathome.ca to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Beaches Jazz Festival. Starts July 17 at 6pm. Free streaming from July 17 to 26. In support of the Michael Garron Hospital front line workers. Join us for 9 days of incredible free virtual performances, workshops, lectures and so much more! Grab your favourite drink and festival snack and get ready for nine days of unreal programming...all from the comfort of your own home! Streamed online on our websitebeachesjazz.com, YouTube, Facebook Live and IGTV. For more information, e-mail here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place on facebook.com/canadianbrass

NEW!! Canadian Opera Company. The Hadrian Watch Party. Aug 10 at 6:30pm. For the first time ever, audiences around the world will have a special opportunity to watch the Canadian Opera Company’s 2018 world premiere production of Hadrian, in full, online. In partnership with Montréal Pride Festival, the COC is hosting a free, one-night-only digital stream of the modern grand opera. The Hadrian Watch Party helps kick off one week of virtual Pride events and will feature a live Q&A session with both the composer and celebrated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor, a giant in Canadian theatre. The ground-breaking production puts an overdue spotlight on one of history’s greatest romances between Hadrian, ruler of the Roman Empire, and his beloved Antinous. The opera's all-star cast includes American baritone Thomas Hampson as Hadrian, Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell as Antinous, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila as Plotina, and Canadian soprano Ambur Braid as Sabina. Director Peter Hinton is joined by an accomplished Canadian creative team; striking sets, paired with dramatic lighting and rich costume design, create an ethereal experience, fully transporting a 21st-century audience into this ancient, and important, story. The evening’s streamed performance will feature cinematic, multi-camera footage, bringing audiences closer than ever to the production’s blockbuster soloists, the renowned COC Orchestra, led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus, and the COC Chorus, led by Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst. This digital event is free but requires advance registration at coc.ca/Hadrian. Throughout the performance, audience members can tweet questions for the live Q&A to follow, using the hashtag #HadrianWatchParty. Hadrian is sung in English and Latin and will be streamed by the COC with English subtitles.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Classicaljukebox.ca

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. For information: 705-300-2405 or collingwoodfestival.com. Visit ePianist.com for information about the virtual concerts.

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites Series: James O’Callaghan. Featuring an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Not non-other. Conducted by Alex Pauk and performed by Esprit Orchestra in Koerner Hall on Feb 26, 2020. Watch the video here. Watch the composer in conversation with Alex Pauk on Soundbites Insights here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Starts July 5, every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000. Website: harbourfront.live

International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. IF 2020. Aug 8 at 8pm. An all-night, online celebration of improvisational arts that will feature video performances from 150+ artists from 15+ countries. This 24-hour festival is free to attend and will feature a dynamic array of improvisational artists, including musicians, spoken word poets, dancers, and theatre practitioners. improvfest.ca/

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click on youtube.com/watch?v=F2eVauBqiAY. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit kingstonsymphony.ca.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony  Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. facebook.com/kwsymphony and youtube.com/user/kwsymphony/videos.

Koerner Hall CONCERTS FROM HOME There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

NEW!! Christopher Lee. Livestream Recital. July 26 at 2:15pm. A livestream recital for flute and piano with Christopher Lee (flute) and Deborah Hui (piano). Broadcasting from a downtown Toronto church with no audience. Music by Mahler, Beethoven, Heggie, Dvorak, Sarasate, and Silva. This is a ticketed event. Price: $6. A YouTube link will be sent to ticket holders on the day of the event. Visit here for tickets.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) dannymichel.com

Music Gallery at Home. Summer Reruns featuring Bandcamp watch-parties on Fridays at 7pm and talks on Mondays at 7pm. 

Aug 7 - Bandcamp Watch Party: SlowPitchSound (MG Remixed, 2016) + co-presented with IF: Improvisation Festival.

Aug 10 - Forward Together (X Avant Festival 2019). Moderated by Del Cowie, with Cheryl Duvall (Thin Edge New Music Collective), Ange Loft (YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN), Chelsea McBride (Socialist Night School) and Keysha Freshh (The Sorority).

All performances and talks will be streamed live via the Music Gallery Facebook Page and musicgallery.org/live/

NEW!! Music Toronto. First Virtual Concert. July 18 at 8pm. Live stream our first virtual concert – your only chance to hear the Gryphon Trio in concert from The Isabel, the wonderful chamber music theatre in Kingston. Program - Haydn: Piano Trio No.32 in A. David Braid: 9 Episodes from Isolation (a new work in response to the coronavirus). Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.2 in c. Visit our website.

New Music Concerts. NMC Media Archives. Available now. A NMC performance on Apr 12, 1987, of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) at the Premiere Dance Theatre with renowned puppeteer Bil Baird's marionettes. Max Ferguson, narrator; Bill Baird's Marionettes directed by Peter Baird; Stanley McCartney, clarinet; Peter Lutek, bassoon; James Spragg, cornet; Robert Aitken, conductor. Follow along with the score here and visit here for the video.

NEW!! New Music Concerts. Sonic Gace: An NMC Audio Diary. Our next post is by Canadian pianist Stephanie Chua. As a musician with incredible skill and expressive capability, Stephanie has championed many Canadian works, including several commissions.Watch and listen here. 

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. This week features a long distance collaboration with two singers in Glasgow, Scotland. Platforms: Facebook/Youtube. Join us every Saturday. For info: operarevue@gmail.com

NEW!! Orchestra Toronto. Triumvirate. July 24 at 8pm. Three amazing musicians have come together to offer a one-of-a-kind fund-raising recital to benefit Orchestra Toronto. Violinist Corey Gemmell, cellist Tom Mueller, and pianist Richard Herriott will come together to perform an exclusive online recital, with a twist. Our Triumvirate will perform solo and trio works by Bach, Khachaturyan, and Shostakovich. But if you want to hear any more from them, you'll have to bid on one of five possible encores! You'll receive exclusive access to our online recital, live from the University Club Toronto, and hosted by Music Director Michael Newnham. We look forward to a lively evening of music and good cheer. On the program: Bach: Sonata in a BWV1003; Suite for Cello No.4 in E-flat BWV1010; Khachaturian: Toccata; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in e Op. 67. Purchase tickets here. But wait, there could be more! Audience members will have the opportunity to bid to hear our Triumvirate play up to three encores from the following list:

  1. Elgar: Salut d’amour
  2. Bach: Air on the G string
  3. Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs
  4. Joplin: The Entertainer
  5. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5

Bid on encores here. 

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. orchestremetropolitain.com/en/ and mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall-news/

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Website: chamberfest.com

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration. recollectiv.ca

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm on facebook.com/RHCPA

Small World Music. Bollywood Monster Mashup. Presented by MonstrARTity and TD Bank. July 24 & 25. BMM Facebook page 

Suite Melody Care: virtual performances created for hospital patients and elderly in Canada and the United States to bring them some joy through music during these challenging times, in the safety and comfort of their own rooms and with their own personal devices. The first of these performance videos is available at youtu.be/UEg4YsVVHdk suitemelodycare.com

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. If you can't come to them, they will bring the concert experience to you! Hosted by Tafelmusik musicians from their homes, each program lasts about an hour and combines works that may be new to your ears with music you know and love. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik.org

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Throughout the summer, we will continue to gather virtually with you to share beauty and comfort through music of the past. We invite you to participate by following our social media channels or our blog, and using the hashtag #TafelmusikTogether. Visit the blog here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Together Friday: Behind the Scenes of “Elisa’s Dream.” Tafelmusik's oboist Marco Cera, and production manager David Costello, talk about the process behind our latest Tafelmusik Together video, "Elisa's Midsummer Night's Dream," which conjures an imaginary return to the stage. Visit here. 

TD Niagara Jazz Festival. The Virtually Possible Festival. May 19-July 18. Featuring nine virtual, captivating, Big Easy-centric “Sessions” (curated and hosted by musician and New Orleans resident Christopher Butcher of “Heavy Weights Brass Band”) that will explore the art, history, food, famous locations and especially the music of New Orleans – sort of a “Mardi Gras 101” that will culminate in the TDNJF’s Mardi Gras event itself on July 18! For the latest information about what's in store for TD NJF’s “Niagara Summer Mardi Gras”, please click on niagarajazzfestival.com/niagaras-summer-mardi-gras/. To access the exclusive “Mardi Gras Sessions” hosted by Christopher Butcher, visit here.

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series:

July 24: Joanna Majoko Quartet
July 31: OKAN
Aug 7: Alexander Brown Quartet
Aug 14: Joy Lapps Project
Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet feat. Virginia MacDonald
Aug 28: Donnybrook

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. July 20 at 2:00pm. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Join us for a Musical Mondays interview with Mark Camilleri who has worked as music director for many of our productions and services. For more information visit us online here, email us here or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

July 23: VC2. Innovative cello duo performing classical masterworks, unknown gems and boundary pushing music.
July 30: Sina Bathaie. Hypnotic Santur performance with a unique approach toward Persian contemporary music.
Aug 6: Digging Roots. Juno-winning First Nations roots-rockers Shoshona Kish and Raven Kanatakta, a unique musical marriage of unvarnished truth and unconditional love.
Aug 13: Amai Kuda and Y Josephine. A tantalizing Afro-Soul combo of folk, roots, desert blues and African continental music that is about healing the earth, our ancestors and ourselves.

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here.

July 28 - Around the World in 40 Minutes
Aug 11 - Songs Under the Stars
Aug 25 - Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry 

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit torontoconsort.org for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Video Series: The Rather UNIQUE Voice Lesson from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. From our most recent production of Johann Strauss II's masterpiece here we have Alfredo (Cian Horrobin) passing his time in jail by giving his bumbling jailer Frosch (Guillermo Silva-Marin) a rather UNIQUE voice lesson. Performed at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Dec 2018/Jan 2019. Enjoy it here! 

Toronto Summer Music is delighted to announce its first-ever online festival! Save the dates: July 16 – August 1, 2020. Since the announcement that we had to cancel our in-person Beethoven Unleashed Festival, we have been working diligently to create a new digital Festival during this unique summer. Thanks to our generous supporters, we have a fabulous lineup of artists and concerts to present, all in high-quality audio and video – from emerging artists to international stars, Kids Concerts to multidisciplinary productions -- there will be something for everyone! We will be announcing full details in early July. Stay tuned by visiting Toronto Summer Music.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra: The TSO Facebook page hosts a regular series on Facebook Live on Tuesday and Friday afternoons called #TSOatHome.The TSO can also be found on Instagram (torontosymphony), onTwitter (@TorontoSymphony),  and YouTube youtube.com/user/TorontoSymphony. Orchestra members are also represented on Facebook and other platforms. They share content on Facebook (TSO Musicians), Instagram (tsomusicians) and Twitter (@TSOmusicians).  The TSO has also partnered with The Toronto Star for a collection of  “Musical Moments” on Thursdays, thestar.com/musicalmoments

NEW!! University of Toronto, Faculty of Music. Summer Thursdays at Noon. All online performances are hosted by Korin Thomas-Smith.

July 23. Leslie Newman. Leslie is the principal flute with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, a post she has held since 2008. As a soloist, Leslie has performed with orchestras across Canada, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra. Leslie lives in Toronto and teaches at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music. Program: Méditation from Thäis by Massenet. Free. Register here.

July 30. Gryphon Trio. Gryphon Trio is firmly established as one of the world's preeminent piano trios. For more than 25 years, it has earned acclaim and impressed international audiences with its highly refined, dynamic, and memorable performances. The Trio's repertoire ranges from traditional to contemporary, and from European classicism to modern-day multimedia. Performers: Roman Borys, Annalee Patipatanakoon and Jamie Parker. Program: "Dumky" Trio by Dvořák. Free. Register here.

Aug 6. Russell Braun & Carolyn Maule. Renowned for his luminous voice, baritone Russell Braun rightfully claims his place on the concert, opera and recital stages of the world. Braun is a lecturer in Opera and Resident Operatic Performance Specialist at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Carolyn Maule is much in demand as a vocal accompanist. She has performed as accompanist in London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, the National Arts Centre, and Roy Thomson Hall. Program: Chanson à boire by Ravel. Free. Register here.

Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. July 18, 25, Aug 8, 15, 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit epianist.com.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: The World Premiere Performance of Isis and Osiris: Gods of Egypt. By Peter-Anthony Togni, Composer and Sharon Singer, Book Writer and Librettist. We pay tribute to OIC fans and supporters by launching a series of archival videos promoting the wealth and scope of its diverse and innovative programming of rare operas in Canada.Isis and Osiris are two of four siblings born to the Gods of Egypt. They are not only brother and sister, husband and wife but also rulers as King and Queen. Consumed with envy and greed for power, their brother Seth attempts the murder of Osiris and brings about evil in the land. Watch the video here. Stay tuned for more and be on the lookout for our playbill coming up. Enjoy!

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NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Features resources for educators and people of all ages in several diverse and broad-based categories: Art, Dance, Music, Theatre, Media, and More. Subsections include Film and Photography, as well as offerings from Indigenous arts organizations. All tools and activities are free of charge, and available to everyone. Created and curated by representatives from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada’s National Ballet School, Harbourfront Centre, the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Prologue Performing Arts, The Royal Conservatory of Music, TO Live, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Young People’s Theatre, with the support of the City of Toronto, and in consultation with arts educators from various school boards. Visit artsathome.ca to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

NEW!! Array Ensemble. Living Room Talk #10: Sandeep Bhagwati. This week we share Artistic Director David Schotzko's talk with the remarkable Indian-German-Canadian composer Sandeep Bhagwati who studied with composer Wilhelm Kilmayer and today holds the Research Chair position in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory at Concordia University, Montreal. We're also sending our video of Array Ensemble pianist Stephen Clarke's performance of fragments of Sandeep's Music of Crossings (2017) at Arraymusic's November 22nd, 2017, concert The Music of Wilhelm Killmayer & Sandeep Bhagwati, curated by former Artistic Director Martin Arnold. This concert was originally conceived to mark the 90th birthday of German composer Wilhelm Killmayer, however we learned the sad news that he had passed away on August 20th, one day before his birthday. To check out Arraymusic's complete offerings with artist bios, program notes, and more, visit the website here.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Beaches Jazz Festival. Starts July 17 at 6pm. Free streaming from July 17 to 26. In support of the Michael Garron Hospital front line workers. Join us for 9 days of incredible free virtual performances, workshops, lectures and so much more! Grab your favourite drink and festival snack and get ready for nine days of unreal programming...all from the comfort of your own home! Streamed online on our websitebeachesjazz.com, YouTube, Facebook Live and IGTV. For more information, e-mail here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place on facebook.com/canadianbrass

Canadian Opera Company #Opera at Home is an initiative to share one clip every day on social media channels to help bring opera to our audiences during this challenging time. With one clip, every day at 11am there are already 44 of these for viewing, so you might have some catching up to do! Find the link on their homepage coc.ca

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Classicaljukebox.ca

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. For information: 705-300-2405 or collingwoodfestival.com. Visit ePianist.com for information about the virtual concerts.

Dr. Mike Daley. Legends of Vocal Jazz. Starting June 15 at 9am. Live, streamed lecture series. July 13 - Ella Fitzgerald. Streaming here.

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites Series. Alison Yun-Fei Jiang. Featuring an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Temporal. Jiang guest conducted the premiere of her work, performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Watch the video here. Watch the composer in conversation with Alex Pauk here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Starts July 5, every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000. Website: harbourfront.live

International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. IF 2020. Aug 8 at 8pm. An all-night, online celebration of improvisational arts that will feature video performances from 150+ artists from 15+ countries. This 24-hour festival is free to attend and will feature a dynamic array of improvisational artists, including musicians, spoken word poets, dancers, and theatre practitioners. improvfest.ca/

International Resource Centre for Performing Artists. Conversation with Jazz Icon Sheila Jordan and Ori Dagan. July 15 at 3pm. Sheila Jordan is a legendary figure in jazz history--an NEA jazz master and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a session musician with an array of critically acclaimed artists in addition to recording her own albums. Jordan pioneered a bebop and scat jazz singing style with an upright bass as the only accompaniment.  Charlie Parker often introduced Jordan as "the singer with the million dollar ears." Zoom in free with RSVP or questions to info@ircpa.net.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click on youtube.com/watch?v=F2eVauBqiAY. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit kingstonsymphony.ca.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony  Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. facebook.com/kwsymphony and youtube.com/user/kwsymphony/videos.

Koerner Hall CONCERTS FROM HOME There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Visit here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) dannymichel.com

Music Gallery at Home. Summer Reruns featuring Bandcamp watch-parties on Fridays at 7pm and talks on Mondays at 7pm. 

July 13 - Future of Creative Music Toronto (X Avant Festival 2019). Moderated by David Dacks, with Michael Rancic (NOW Magazine), Jessica Cho aka Korea Town Acid, Amanda Smith (FAWN Chamber Creative) and Rich Brown (Rinsethealgorithm, Jazzcast.ca).

Aug 7 - Bandcamp Watch Party: SlowPitchSound (MG Remixed, 2016) + co-presented with IF: Improvisation Festival.

Aug 10 - Forward Together (X Avant Festival 2019). Moderated by Del Cowie, with Cheryl Duvall (Thin Edge New Music Collective), Ange Loft (YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN), Chelsea McBride (Socialist Night School) and Keysha Freshh (The Sorority).

All performances and talks will be streamed live via the Music Gallery Facebook Page and musicgallery.org/live/

New Music Concerts. NMC Media Archives. Available now. A NMC performance on Apr 12, 1987, of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) at the Premiere Dance Theatre with renowned puppeteer Bil Baird's marionettes. Max Ferguson, narrator; Bill Baird's Marionettes directed by Peter Baird; Stanley McCartney, clarinet; Peter Lutek, bassoon; James Spragg, cornet; Robert Aitken, conductor. Follow along with the score here and visit here for the video.

NEW!! New Music Concerts. Sonic Gace: An NMC Audio Diary. Our next post is by Canadian composer Corie Rose Soumah. In our last concert before the pandemic, we performed Corie's dazzling piece Litanies pour un retour as part of our Feb. 13 Serious Smile concert. Corie is quickly becoming one of Canada's most important emerging compositional voices and soon will be pursuing Doctoral studies at Columbia University. Congrats Corie! Watch and listen here. 

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. This week features a long distance collaboration with two singers in Glasgow, Scotland. Platforms: Facebook/Youtube. Join us every Saturday. For info: operarevue@gmail.com

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. orchestremetropolitain.com/en/ and mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall-news/

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Website: chamberfest.com

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration. recollectiv.ca

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm on facebook.com/RHCPA

NEW!! Small World Music. Bollywood Monster Mashup. Presented by MonstrARTity and TD Bank. July 24 & 25. BMM Facebook page 

Suite Melody Care: virtual performances created for hospital patients and elderly in Canada and the United States to bring them some joy through music during these challenging times, in the safety and comfort of their own rooms and with their own personal devices. The first of these performance videos is available at youtu.be/UEg4YsVVHdk suitemelodycare.com

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. If you can't come to them, they will bring the concert experience to you! Hosted by Tafelmusik musicians from their homes, each program lasts about an hour and combines works that may be new to your ears with music you know and love. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik.org

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Throughout the summer, we will continue to gather virtually with you to share beauty and comfort through music of the past. We invite you to participate by following our social media channels or our blog, and using the hashtag #TafelmusikTogether. Visit the blog here.

NEW!! Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Together Friday: Behind the Scenes of “Elisa’s Dream.” Tafelmusik's oboist Marco Cera, and production manager David Costello, talk about the process behind our latest Tafelmusik Together video, "Elisa's Midsummer Night's Dream," which conjures an imaginary return to the stage. Visit here. 

NEW!! TD Niagara Jazz Festival. The Virtually Possible Festival. May 19-July 18. Featuring nine virtual, captivating, Big Easy-centric “Sessions” (curated and hosted by musician and New Orleans resident Christopher Butcher of “Heavy Weights Brass Band”) that will explore the art, history, food, famous locations and especially the music of New Orleans – sort of a “Mardi Gras 101” that will culminate in the TDNJF’s Mardi Gras event itself on July 18! For the latest information about what's in store for TD NJF’s “Niagara Summer Mardi Gras”, please click on niagarajazzfestival.com/niagaras-summer-mardi-gras/. To access the exclusive “Mardi Gras Sessions” hosted by Christopher Butcher, visit here.

NEW!! TD Sunfest ’20 Connected will be presented online next Friday, July 10th and Saturday, July 11th, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM on both days. Streamed performances by 15 top international and national world music ensembles, done especially for TD Sunfest, will celebrate for many of the locked-down bands the first opportunity to play together since their coronavirus isolation! HOW TO WATCH: On Facebook: SunfestLDN and CTV London pages. On YouTube: SunfestLDN (make sure to subscribe!). Website: CTV London. HOW TO LISTEN: RADIO: CIUT 89.5 FM (Toronto Area) & CHRW 94.9 FM Radio Western (London Area).

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series:

July 10: The Don Thompson Trio
July 17: Jenie Thai
July 24: Joanna Majoko Quartet
July 31: OKAN
Aug 7: Alexander Brown Quartet
Aug 14: Joy Lapps Project
Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet feat. Virginia MacDonald
Aug 28: Donnybrook

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. July 13 at 2.00 pm. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Join us for a Musical Mondays interview with Ross Inglis, our High Holy Days Choir musical director. For more information visit us online here, email us here or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

NEW!! Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

July 16: OKAN. Women-led contemporary Afro-Cuban roots and jazz trio.
July 23: VC2. Innovative cello duo performing classical masterworks, unknown gems and boundary pushing music.
July 30: Sina Bathaie. Hypnotic Santur performance with a unique approach toward Persian contemporary music.
Aug 6: Digging Roots. Juno-winning First Nations roots-rockers Shoshona Kish and Raven Kanatakta, a unique musical marriage of unvarnished truth and unconditional love.
Aug 13: Amai Kuda and Y Josephine. A tantalizing Afro-Soul combo of folk, roots, desert blues and African continental music that is about healing the earth, our ancestors and ourselves.

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here.

NEW!! July 14 - Stories of Piaf. Edith Piaf continues to grip hearts across the world through story and song. Pandora Topp has been our Edith Piaf since our series inception seven years ago, and has become a pillar of the TCO summer season. This Bastille Day, come join us as we watch Pandora Topp transform into character in song, and walk us through moments of Piaf’s life in story. Our longstanding TCO musicians Danny McErlain and Rob DiVito provide instrumental interludes to the story. Watch here. 

July 28 - Around the World in 40 Minutes

Aug 11 - Songs Under the Stars

Aug 25 - Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry 

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit torontoconsort.org for further information.

NEW!! Toronto Operetta Theatre. Video Series: The Rather UNIQUE Voice Lesson from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. From our most recent production of Johann Strauss II's masterpiece here we have Alfredo (Cian Horrobin) passing his time in jail by giving his bumbling jailer Frosch (Guillermo Silva-Marin) a rather UNIQUE voice lesson. Performed at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Dec 2018/Jan 2019. Enjoy it here! 

Toronto Summer Music is delighted to announce its first-ever online festival! Save the dates: July 16 – August 1 2020. Since the announcement that we had to cancel our in-person Beethoven Unleashed Festival, we have been working diligently to create a new digital Festival during this unique summer. Thanks to our generous supporters, we have a fabulous lineup of artists and concerts to present, all in high-quality audio and video – from emerging artists to international stars, Kids Concerts to multidisciplinary productions -- there will be something for everyone! We will be announcing full details in early July. Stay tuned by visiting Toronto Summer Music.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra: The TSO Facebook page hosts a regular series on Facebook Live on Tuesday and Friday afternoons called #TSOatHome.The TSO can also be found on Instagram (torontosymphony), onTwitter (@TorontoSymphony),  and YouTube youtube.com/user/TorontoSymphony. Orchestra members are also represented on Facebook and other platforms. They share content on Facebook (TSO Musicians), Instagram (tsomusicians) and Twitter (@TSOmusicians).  The TSO has also partnered with The Toronto Star for a collection of  “Musical Moments” on Thursdays, thestar.com/musicalmoments

NEW!! Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. July 18, 25, Aug 8, 15, 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit epianist.com.

NEW!! VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: The World Premiere Performance of Isis and Osiris: Gods of Egypt. By Peter-Anthony Togni, Composer and Sharon Singer, Book Writer and Librettist. We pay tribute to OIC fans and supporters by launching a series of archival videos promoting the wealth and scope of its diverse and innovative programming of rare operas in Canada.Isis and Osiris are two of four siblings born to the Gods of Egypt. They are not only brother and sister, husband and wife but also rulers as King and Queen. Consumed with envy and greed for power, their brother Seth attempts the murder of Osiris and brings about evil in the land. Watch video here. Stay tuned for more and be on the lookout for our playbill coming up. Enjoy! 

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